283 African Zoology. 



breast and anterior part of belly, pure white, all rayed trans- 

 versely with narrow brown-black bands ; hinder parts of belly 

 and under tail coverts pure white. Primary wing feathers 

 brownish, the inner vanes with transverse dusl^y black bands ; 

 secondaries brownish, inner vanes edged wilh white and crossed j^ 

 by black bands. Tail slightly rounded, the ouler vanes of 

 feathers brown-black, spotted or irregularly banded with reddish 

 brown; inner vanes black, and partially crossed in three differ- 

 ent positions by white ; tips of all the feathers white. Bill 

 black ; cere, legs, and toes, yellow ; claws black. Length 

 of male ten inches, of female twelve inches. 



Young. — Above brown, feathers margined with rufous ; be- 

 neath rufous, hlotched or banded transversely wilh black-brown } 

 throat but slightly spotted. 



Inhabits Africa, — forests of South Africa. 



Le IMiuule, Le Vaill. pi. 34. 



• j4ccipi(er mclanoleucvs. Smith. Above black with a faint tint 

 of brown ; below deep black. Primary quill feathers black, the 

 inner vanes towards quills spotted or irregularly banded with 

 white ; secondaries dusky brown clouded with black, and the 

 inner vanes spotted with white ; scapulars brown with some 

 white blotches on both vanes. Tail slightly rounded, black, 

 with four or five tawny brown bands, the outer feathers more 

 or less blotched with white towards quills, the centre ones 

 without variegations. Bill black, with the festoon and a spot 

 on the lower mandible yellow ; legs and toes greenish yellow ; 

 claws black. Length about twenty inches. 



Middle age.— Above black, beneath white blotched more or 

 less with black. 



Young. — Head rufous, longitudinally streaked with brown ; 

 back brown, the feathers margined with rufous ; under parts 

 rufous, variegated with longitudinal brown stripes. Tail slight- 

 ly rounded, each feather with four or five transverse black 

 bands, and the spaces between them brown, finely mottled with 

 white; some of the black bands are somewhat arrow-shaped,, 

 with their distal edges margined tawny white. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Accipiter melanoleucus. Smith, South African Quarterly 



Journal, vol. i. p. 229. 



Obs. Naturalists who see reason for separating the larger and more 

 robust species from the smaller and more slender ones, would rank this 

 as an Astur. 



• Accipiter Madagascariensis, Verreanx. Above dull brown 

 with an irregular white spot on the nape ; below white, finely 

 barred with brown-black ; vent and under tail coverts pure 



